diff --git a/sql/handler.h b/sql/handler.h
index 450805d08ef..3b64a064cf4 100644
--- a/sql/handler.h
+++ b/sql/handler.h
@@ -130,6 +130,34 @@
 #define HA_ONLINE_DROP_UNIQUE_INDEX             (1L << 9) /*drop uniq. online*/
 #define HA_ONLINE_ADD_PK_INDEX                  (1L << 10)/*add prim. online*/
 #define HA_ONLINE_DROP_PK_INDEX                 (1L << 11)/*drop prim. online*/
+/*
+  HA_PARTITION_FUNCTION_SUPPORTED indicates that the function is
+  supported at all.
+  HA_FAST_CHANGE_PARTITION means that optimised variants of the changes
+  exists but they are not necessarily done online.
+
+  HA_ONLINE_DOUBLE_WRITE means that the handler supports writing to both
+  the new partition and to the old partitions when updating through the
+  old partitioning schema while performing a change of the partitioning.
+  This means that we can support updating of the table while performing
+  the copy phase of the change. For no lock at all also a double write
+  from new to old must exist and this is not required when this flag is
+  set.
+  This is actually removed even before it was introduced the first time.
+  The new idea is that handlers will handle the lock level already in
+  store_lock for ALTER TABLE partitions.
+
+  HA_PARTITION_ONE_PHASE is a flag that can be set by handlers that take
+  care of changing the partitions online and in one phase. Thus all phases
+  needed to handle the change are implemented inside the storage engine.
+  The storage engine must also support auto-discovery since the frm file
+  is changed as part of the change and this change must be controlled by
+  the storage engine. A typical engine to support this is NDB (through
+  WL #2498).
+*/
+#define HA_PARTITION_FUNCTION_SUPPORTED         (1L << 12)
+#define HA_FAST_CHANGE_PARTITION                (1L << 13)
+#define HA_PARTITION_ONE_PHASE                  (1L << 14)
 
 /*
   Index scan will not return records in rowid order. Not guaranteed to be
diff --git a/sql/sql_partition.cc b/sql/sql_partition.cc
index e6b26223752..07ca28c69bc 100644
--- a/sql/sql_partition.cc
+++ b/sql/sql_partition.cc
@@ -4011,7 +4011,7 @@ uint prep_alter_part_table(THD *thd, TABLE *table, ALTER_INFO *alter_info,
       is freed by setting version to 0. table->s->version= 0 forces a
       flush of the table object in close_thread_tables().
     */
-    uint flags;
+    uint flags= 0;
     table->s->version= 0L;
     if (alter_info->flags == ALTER_TABLE_REORG)
     {
@@ -4060,7 +4060,10 @@ uint prep_alter_part_table(THD *thd, TABLE *table, ALTER_INFO *alter_info,
       my_error(ER_PARTITION_FUNCTION_FAILURE, MYF(0));
       DBUG_RETURN(1);
     }
-    *fast_alter_partition= flags ^ HA_PARTITION_FUNCTION_SUPPORTED;
+    *fast_alter_partition=
+      ((flags & (HA_FAST_CHANGE_PARTITION | HA_PARTITION_ONE_PHASE)) != 0);
+    DBUG_PRINT("info", ("*fast_alter_partition: %d  flags: 0x%x",
+                        *fast_alter_partition, flags));
     if (alter_info->flags & ALTER_ADD_PARTITION)
     {
       /*
@@ -4660,7 +4663,6 @@ the generated partition syntax in a correct manner.
       DBUG_ASSERT(FALSE);
     }
     *partition_changed= TRUE;
-    create_info->db_type= &partition_hton;
     thd->lex->part_info= tab_part_info;
     if (alter_info->flags == ALTER_ADD_PARTITION ||
         alter_info->flags == ALTER_REORGANIZE_PARTITION)
diff --git a/sql/sql_partition.h b/sql/sql_partition.h
index 3cb7d9c2d0f..4982b1fcf1f 100644
--- a/sql/sql_partition.h
+++ b/sql/sql_partition.h
@@ -24,35 +24,6 @@
 #define HA_CAN_PARTITION_UNIQUE (1 << 2)
 #define HA_USE_AUTO_PARTITION (1 << 3)
 
-/*
-  HA_PARTITION_FUNCTION_SUPPORTED indicates that the function is
-  supported at all.
-  HA_FAST_CHANGE_PARTITION means that optimised variants of the changes
-  exists but they are not necessarily done online.
-
-  HA_ONLINE_DOUBLE_WRITE means that the handler supports writing to both
-  the new partition and to the old partitions when updating through the
-  old partitioning schema while performing a change of the partitioning.
-  This means that we can support updating of the table while performing
-  the copy phase of the change. For no lock at all also a double write
-  from new to old must exist and this is not required when this flag is
-  set.
-  This is actually removed even before it was introduced the first time.
-  The new idea is that handlers will handle the lock level already in
-  store_lock for ALTER TABLE partitions.
-
-  HA_PARTITION_ONE_PHASE is a flag that can be set by handlers that take
-  care of changing the partitions online and in one phase. Thus all phases
-  needed to handle the change are implemented inside the storage engine.
-  The storage engine must also support auto-discovery since the frm file
-  is changed as part of the change and this change must be controlled by
-  the storage engine. A typical engine to support this is NDB (through
-  WL #2498).
-*/
-#define HA_PARTITION_FUNCTION_SUPPORTED         (1L << 12)
-#define HA_FAST_CHANGE_PARTITION                (1L << 13)
-#define HA_PARTITION_ONE_PHASE                  (1L << 14)
-
 /*typedef struct {
   ulonglong data_file_length;
   ulonglong max_data_file_length;